I've been reading about this all day. It'll never happen - the British public wont vote for him in the selection show, but it'd be amazing if it did happen. (Deep breaths)

All I've been hearing today is "Miserable Icon" "Pope of Mope" "Depressing Pop Star" "Gloomy Genuis" The public in general really don't get Morrissey at all.
I think Morrissey is witty, funny and charismatic - when will the world ever learn!

I think he will enter the selection process but the public will veto him in favour of an "airhead" of some description. Unless of course they are seeking new credibility and a higher standard of song.

I also am sure though that the general (and false) opnions of Morrissey by the public will quash this as a non-starter.

I hope it happens though - it feels right!
TT

Who is Morrissey anyhow?

Eurovision is now won by the artist accorded most votes in each client state..i.e whoever wins the vote in any given country gets twelve points from their "panel",while second place gets 10 etc etc down to "nil point".(like a more democratic electoral college system,america)
basically if every moz fan in every country votes he stands a fair chance..
i'm convinced that one can also "virtually" vote on the interweb..leaving it open to subtle "interventions" from american friends...
i'm not entirely sure about the whole idea..but i am fascinated by the perversity of it..
boom
bang
a bang

It would be amazing, although I also doubt the British public; I have the misfortune of witnessing them everyday.

  Morrisseys should ask to by pass the intial voting selection.

  This part worried me:

'Although it is unlikely that he would perform the song if an agreement is reached'

  Can anyone on here honestly see him writing a song for someone else to perform. As sure as I am about the talent of people such as Daz Sampson, I feel Morrissey believes that only himself can truely convey the passion and intensity of his lyrics.

  Morrissey will present his terms (whatever they are) and the BBC will have to either accept them or decline them, I don't think he's the sort to negotiate!

    Rob (douch98@hotmail.co.uk)

 

Swallowneck would advise Morrissey to not involve himself in Eurovision hell - especially after the failure of Daz Sampson last year!!!

read like the muppet show chef:

http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,97 0865,00.html

I'm not sure if we can vote him through to be our entry I reckon he would win it!!! The Eurovision is kitsch as hell but Ill Mozalini would provide it with some charm and me thinks he would love every second of it :)

Dear God Please Help Me

(As in FUCK ME I hope Morrissey doesn't appear on Eurovision, there is a thing called integrity...
Not that he enters this song. Or maybe he could enter for Italy like that athlete Fiona May)

...on eurovision but it'll take some persuasion on the BBC's side to get him to do it. Although, it would be nice to see some talent on eurovision at last! Maybe Morrissey appearing on eurovision will attract more talented acts to compete on the competition? Who knows?

It would be interesting to have an actual artist, not an "entertainer," represent the UK. The opportunity for a truly bizarre, unsettling and ultimately camp statement is intriguing.

It just makes me laugh, which is what I love so much about Morrissey - bless him for his highly developed sense of the absurd.

You can read my toughts about Morrissey and Eurovision song contest in my blog if you want to.

Sorry for my bad grammar (which I'm sure exists in my blog) I'm just a swede.....

http://aboutmorrissey.blogspot.com/

 

I can't believe anybody could take this story seriously. It appeared in The Sun for fuck's sake and is merely picking up on Morrissey's tongue in cheek comments from last year.

but even confirmation that he is involved on some level will result in never seeing him perform live again, I will sell my collection and we should consider shutting down this site. And I am no music snob, and I think the eurovision is fine for those who are interested. I know this news is not true, but god, just one message from the man that he is or has been talking and I am out.

I don´t like this idea at all... I was hoping that Morrisseys comment from last year was only a joke!!

Hey..I know that it not belongs to this topic...but I just wanted to say that I will record the whole live concert from Moz in Berlin on 17th dec. 2006 today!
If someone is interested in a copy....just ask me!

greetings Ricki

While this news feels like a bit of a shock it really shouldn’t since we know about Morrissey’s childhood immersion in the Eurovision contests, and about the videos and pre-show songs during the ROTT tour. Even though he is consistent, true to himself, ‘the same underneath’, how and when he tackles hacknied themes is always revealing as he frames them in a blinding new light. His tastes might sometimes seem obscure and precious, but he proves over and over that on the streets he ran, and that he hasn’t ever lost touch with his grounding in the quotidian, the minutiae of everyday life, or with the popular pulse.

In answer to a question about how he writes lyrics on 14 December 2005, he explained:

“Usually the melody comes first and then the words jump in, but before either I must have a certain feeling and a certain incentive in order to make both the voice and the words sound true. Luckily, for me, I'm always unstoppably driven. It must end soon - for all our sakes ...”

For all our sakes, it must NOT end. He was voted England's 2nd great living icon recently so there would be plenty of supportive fingers on buzzers. Mike-thrashing amidst snowdrops and daffodils, is the world ready to be spellbound by Euro-Moz?!

I sincerley hope this is a rumour . Any one remember the Moz to work with Prince . I think that was 1992 I may stand corrected. Morrissey is a card !!!

This is an open message to Morrissey asking him to reconsider any involvement with Eurovision for Swallowneck's sake...

I think it would be cool and kitschy but Swallowneck feels he knows what's best for the next stage of Mozzer's career, so he must please listen to him or he might lose his respect!!!

What does everyone else think?

ever! Well, as far as the mainstream media is concerned. He's in all the evening papers in London, it's been one of the main items ob the BBC website all day, and it's made countless other sites!
He may have a chance of making the 'and finally' sections of the TV news tonight. Hoorah!
Maurice

the same old moz prefixed media morrissey comments, i hope if he does enter he enters singing his own song because new moz material is always great to hear, but seeing how britian have no chance of winning eurovision because of Mr Blair and the world hating us the whole thing seem pretty pointless!

at least we'll get 12 points from sweden and norway, moz is huge in both these countries.

I can vividly remember the night ABBA won, and I think I had my first erection when Bucks Fizz won (do you wanna see some more?), so, Mozza on Eurovision might at least give me my third erection.

veering Cliff-wards

He wouldn't,He couldn't.........He definately shouldn't.

I'd be mortified there's nothing naffer than eurovision even the old folk now see it as a joke

Eurovision?

the very definition of bourgeois.

His occasional lame attempts at adorning himself with a sense of rebellion at 47 years of age should be fairly transparent to anyone out of their teens.

It becomes even more apparent with news like this.

Anyhow, the Morrissey phenomenon was good while it lasted.

why is everybody so surprised? he made an homage to it in his videos. he talked about how he liked to watch it as a kid. he even previously said that he wanted to be asked to write a song for it. now, suddenly, people think that he's gone off the deep end.

i don't see how Morrissey can complain that this site scrutinizes him to death when its obvious that nobody pays any attention to what's staring them in the face.

No. No. No.

Don't do that, Morrissey. It's so silly, I don't even see the joke.

It's a lose/lose situation - the average Eurovision viewer will simply not get it, and the average indie fan will just not take you seriously anymore. It'll be the beginning of the end.

According to his pre-show selection these are his favorite Eurovision-entries.
Can he match them?

Tommy Körberg, "Judy Min Vän" [dailymotion.com]

Gigliola Cinquetti, "Si" [dailymotion.com]

Monique Melsen, "Pomme, Pomme, Pomme" [dailymotion.com]

I tried to post this item yesterday myslef - thankfully he's in talks to write, not to perform... For one harrowing moment I was seriously considering if he had actually lost his mind ;)

Elsie

and he claims that the Brits are fixed.... wait for this sonny boy. Once we learn that Westlife is participating he'll be part of the Eurovision history. And not in a good way

If Morrissey goes ahead and writes AND performs for Eurovision, it could completely destroy his reputation, and, if he doesn't even get it past the British vote, leave him completely humiliated....Would Bowie, Bono or even frigging Will Young do it? No, because it is career suicide, sitting there surrounding by smiling idiots as the nil points roll in, everyone votes for their neighbours, its a lousy competition...UK always lose, we are hated accross Europe...Morrissey, please, SEE SENSE!!! THIS IS SELF DESTRUCTIVE MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really don't think Morrissey would do it, perform especially, maybe write a song, but even then, doubtful. If he does do it, I think he would win it. For all the haters out there, think of his fan-base. They are feverish devouted and will vote in their droves. Also, as a respectable artist, i'm sure things would be done to favour Morrissey. It would be massive news in the music press all over Europe. I'm sure katrina and the waves celebrity help them win some extra votes etc

If you're a Morrissey fan, you should know about his obsession about Euro-vision anyway. He has already written for a past euro-vision contestant - Sandie Shaw with Please help the Cause of Loneliness (Shaw comeback? Probably not since I heard they have fallen out a long time ago) - so is it really so strange?

I can't see it however. He made those comments last year at a gig I attend (can't remember which venue now) and I'm sure it was as tongue in cheek as when he 'demands' a knighthood. I think sometimes people misunderstand his very dry sense of humour.

... to be proud again to own your music? this joke really is NOT funny anytime. sad sad.

Of course he should write a song for it, and if (unlikely) he wanted to perform it, Better!

Why do you think that Morrissey did the Festivals? He hates them, but he did them because it was a new audience. Eurovision would be the same. As long as he is happy with what he has written, who cares?

I think that all these comments are from "Younger fans", as anyone who knew The Smiths, and Morrissey at the time would know that he did everything. You couldn't watch a television programme, switch on the radio, open a newpaper - without seeing him. He wasn't bothered, it was all about exposure and reaching new audiences (on a tv quiz, talking to a puppet or on a daytime chatshow - he wasn't that fussy.)

This is Morrissey being the Morrissey soem of us can remember.

All women braindead, all men gay. Viva Moz!

Even though they seem to flatter themselves that they are very intelligent they always take every news item at face value.

Just a couple questions you need to ask when you are reading any news story.
Who initiated the story?
Who is being directly quoted?
What actual facts are being communicated?

So we can conclude from this story that the BBC need some publicity for Eurovision. Morrissey made a few comments last year about it. He is the most high profile celebrity they can use to get the publicity. They contact his management. They issue a press release. It's from the BBC so every other news agency repeats it.

Four singles off a below par album. Average performances in expensive, soulless barn venues and now a few quid off the Beeb. Integrity was lost long ago and next will be his fanbase. His new legion of 'fans' are the short attention span generation. They will soon pass by and drift away. A once great career will be over and a once great man left to count his loot and observe the wreckage of his own making

Moz - you should be a judge for the UK show.

Thanks so much for the UK shows in 2006 - so many great memories.

Love Ringleader and have created my own De Luxe version featuring all those lovely B-sides (will you hunt me down?).

Either it would be wonderfully kitsch and camp and trash classic.....or deeply sad with Moz -God forbid - ending up a laughing stock.

Two things, though, are absolutely essential: He himself should not perform because there's always a real chance of being humiliation in this contest. Nil points!

And no way should any composition of his be performed by a TV reality pop show winner or Cliff Richard.

It just came through Germany's biggest musicbiz newsletter "Musikwoche" aswell... they're not known for picking up on gossip and rumours so I guess it's a little more than that.

God this is really embarrassing....

I say go for it Moz.

its a win win situation..

if he looses it will be because nobody gets him.

if he wins everyone will love him.

i suggest he wears his lovely yellow shirt with a pair of purple trousers.

Incredible! How can he be seriuos about this? Crawling around in garbage?

Goodbye Morrissey - thank god for Metallica and Nine Inch Nails - they hold tight to the artistic and personal integrity.

"Do you love me like you used to?"

Don't think so.

Cosmo Vitelli

Jesus H Christ! What is Moz thinking of> The Eurovision is a hideous staple of bu*lshit. How can he even consider partaking on any level in this?? Im beginning to think becoming a great British Icon has gone to his head. Unfortunately he is becoming the essence of "Get Off the Stage" that he wrote so many years ago!!!

Is it 'making your mind up' time for Mozzalini?!

Lordi, the excitement of it all!

I suggest.
That'd go down a storm

ing boots!

Anybody listen to Radio Scotland earlier today?

They had a mock up of Morrissey singing Buck Fizz's 'Making your mind up'...it was superb! lol

It might be available on listen again...it was on Fred MacAuley's show.

Does no-one else like Daz Sampson.

He put on rather a jolly decent effort last year if you ask me and deserves our thanks.

He was a big Smiths fan as well.

The Winner is UK and Moz.

No, No, No, NO!
Final answer! No!